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... rejoinders, brief considerations, answers, replies, remarks, reflections, objections, confutations. For a very few days they are fixed up all in publ... ...gry, to urge on his own reasons without the least regard to the answers or objections of his opposite, and fully predetermined in his mind against all... ...an their parents, by me beaux become politicians, and schoolboys judges of philosophy; by me sophisters debate and con clude upon the depths of knowl... ... and vigour. He cast his eye on the adverse wing, with a desire to find an object worthy of his valour, when behold upon a sorrel gelding of a mon st... ...be of much weight to its disadvantage, since they are liable to the common objection of condemn ing what they did not understand. Nor am I at all off... ...ks and Other Short Pieces – Swift I hope I have maturely considered this objection, which in some cases is of no little weight. For example: a man m... ... to these oracles, and returned home with great contempt for their law and philosophy, their heads filled with trash under the name of politeness, cri... ...d they are to have an inscription over their grave. It requires but little philosophy to discover and observe that there is no intrinsic value in all ...

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...the approbation or disapprobation of a client who cannot speak, and as the object of his desire or his repugnance cannot be clearly proved to me, on a... ..., encircled as it was by a framework of trees. The overseer would not have objected, while he was about it, to have made some improvements in the gard... ...calculator you are!” exclaimed Danglars, calling to his assistance all his philosophy and dissimulation. “I have made money at the same time by specul... ...have, confirm her in her opinion; it will be easy for you, as you have the philosophy of the one and the wit of the other.” “I thank you for the warni... ...s, carpet, or time- piece. It was evident that the abbe limited himself to objects of strict necessity. He preferred to use the sitting-room upstairs,... ...you have only to search for yourself and you will find, alas, but too many objects upon whom to exercise your benevolence.” The abbe once more bowed a... ...ld,” exclaimed the old lady sharply, “let us hear none of the conventional objections that deter weak minds from preparing for the future. I also was ... ...rich with a few deniers. This parallel disturbed his usual politeness, the philosophy he witnessed appalled him, he muttered a few words of general ci...

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...llen had no very great fancy for facing the enemy herself, but she made no objection; and looking down-stairs, she saw her brother Harold waiting whil... ...ng said to go to the Rectory for the sake of what he could get. He did not object to the farmer’s beer, which was some- times given him when any unusu... ...en the stream was high, and threatened to be over his feet. Harold made no objection; but no sooner were all the pony’s four hoofs well upon the bridg... ...en he licked his fingers during the process need not be mentioned; but his objection to Ragglesford was quite gone off, now that some one was nearly c... ...very bad one. ‘No, Sir,’ said Paul; ‘but most times it was books he called philosophy, that I couldn’t make anything of—no story, and all dull; but he...

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...n the rich red front of his dwelling. The house that rose beyond the lawn was a structure to repay such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch....

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... was a structure to repay such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It s... ...e house, but his eyes were bent musingly on the lawn; so that he had been an object of observation to a person who had just made her appearance in the... ... sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice and tasted like soap; she objected to the consumption of beer by her maid servants; and she affirmed... ...her the willowy one. Her hair, which was dark even to blackness, had been an object of envy to many women; her light grey eyes, a little too firm perha... ...im,” said Isabel. “Why, it seemed to me that you barely spoke to him,” Ralph objected. “Never mind, I like him all the same. I like your father too, i... ...r of age; if he had neither inno cence nor weakness, so he had no practical philosophy. His jaw showed the same voluntary cast as in earlier days; bu...

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...mountains and the winds, The Mother Bird had built her lodge. Though mean My object, and inglorious, yet the end Was not ignoble. Oh! when I have hung... ...ness, call it solitude, Or blank desertion, no familiar shapes 425 Of hourly objects, images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; But h... ... up our human Soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus 440 T... ...nded fairies, yet not vain Nor profitless, if haply they impress’d Collateral objects and appearances, 625 Albeit lifeless then, and doom’d to sleep Un... ...de of strength, 70 And the vain glory of superior skill Were interfus’d with objects which subdu’d And temper’d them, and gradually produc’d A quiet i... ...ess tales, we bless you then— 550 Impostors, drivellers, dotards, as the ape Philosophy will call you—then we feel With what, and how great might ye a... ...was neither these nor aught Of wild belief engrafted on their names By false philosophy, that caused the woe, But that it was a reservoir of guilt And... ... it. This was the time when, all things tending fast 810 To depravation, the philosophy That promised to abstract the hopes of man Out of his feelings... ...s their aim Plans without thought, or bottomed on false thought 75 And false philosophy; having brought to test Of solid life and true result the book...

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...world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject. An objection may perhaps be apprehended from the more delicate, that this dish... ...ng his pomp, in the full blaze of his majesty rose the sun, than which one object alone in this lower creation could be more glori ous, and that Mr. ... ...ces, falls intirely upon her. Can love, which always seeks the good of its object, attempt to betray a woman into a bar gain where she is so greatly ... ... was neither subject to his power, nor in any probabil ity of becoming an object of his goodness. The ingenuity of this behaviour had gained Jenny ... ...malice being no longer able to vent its rage on her, began to seek another object of its bitterness, and this was no less than Mr. Allworthy, himself;... ...d. In the affair of love, which, out of strict conformity with the Stoic philosophy, we shall here treat as a disease, this proneness to relapse is ... ...he moment the rug fell, stared directly at Jones; so that when the idea of philosophy was added to the figure now discov ered, it would have been ver... ...t private recesses of their study, and a certain liquorish part of natural philosophy is often the principal subject of their conversation. But when... ... pre vented by the interposition of Thwackum and the physi cian; for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very cal...

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...es Mr. Tulkinghorn. “Nor ever will be,” says my Lady. Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, Britis... ...—” “My aunt, sir!” “It is really of no use carrying on a deception when no object is to be gained by it,” said Mr. Kenge smoothly, “Aunt in fact, thou... ... from below 40 Bleak House – Dickens with a broom; I don’t know with what object, and I don’t think she did. I therefore supposed that Mrs. Jellyby w... ... respect for Mr. Jarndyce, and no one in whom he is inter ested can be an object of indifference to me.” We expressed our acknowledgments and sat dow... ... least twenty . “I began to keep the little creatures,” she said, “with an object that the wards will readily comprehend. With the in tention of rest... ...n’t want to look about him.” This appeared to Mr. Skimpole to be the drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good phi losophy, always supposing th... ...; he had accepted himself with all his fail ings and had thought it sound philosophy to make the best of the bargain; and he hoped we would do the sa... ... out of it, there is consid erable excitement too, for men of science and philosophy come to look, and carriages set down doctors at the corner who a... ...hat. I am above the rest of mankind in such a case as that. I can act with philosophy in such a case as that. I am not warped by prejudices, as an Ita...

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...gs before they began to think of establish ing a college. Their principal object was, to rear up pious and learned ministers; and hence old writers c... ...ence, and Clara, and Charley, and little Alice had been attracted to other objects for two or three months past. They had sported in the gladsome suns... ... as he held his office during the king’s plea sure, it would be his great object to please the king. But the people thought that a governor ought to ... ...bility and a skilful soldier. A plan was now formed for accomplishing that object which had so long been the darling wish of the New Englanders, and w... ... he was accurate, at least, though far from possess ing the brilliancy or philosophy of Mr. Bancroft.” “But if Hutchinson knew the history of the cha... ...same day; which proclamation should be so ambiguous in its nature that the object for which they were to assemble could not be discerned, and so perem...

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... permissionaire brings with him invariably a considerable weight of broken objects, bits of shell, cartridge clips, hel- mets; it is a peripatetic mus... ...h either hostility or humanity. Germany for them is mani- festly merely an objectionable Thing. It is not a nation, not a people, but a nuisance. One ... ...the old problem of the irresistible force in conflict with the immov- able object. And the outcome has been the biggest military mine in all history. ... ...amouflage is merely to conceal. T rees are brought up and planted near the object to be hidden, it is painted in the same tones as its background, it ... ...IST AND CIFIST AND CIFIST AND CIFIST AND THE THE THE THE THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECT CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECT CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECT CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECT CONSC... ... sought some finer exercise for his exceptional quality. He pursued art or philosophy or literature upon their more esoteric lev- els, and realised mo...

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...o for the love of thee! But I will not leave the pursuit of thee, once the object of my purest and most devoted affection, though to me thou canst hen... ...ttired female who entered at that instant by a side-door he recognized the object of his search. The first impulse arising from this dis- covery urged... ...indeed,” said Varney; “and his pleasure arises out of a love worthy of the object which inspires it. But he who possesses a treasure, and who values i... ...and resting-place. If we pause sooner, we slide down by our own weight, an object of universal de- rision. I stand high, but I stand not secure enough... ...I know you have sense enough to understand me, when I say frankly that the object of our temporary acquaintance having been accomplished, we must be s... ...m us when this household had objects of ambition to offer; it is an honest philosophy, since it re- turns thee to us when there are only dangers to be... ...y; that if the sun shines, grain will ripen; and I believe in much natural philosophy to the same effect, which, if the stars swear to me, I will say ...

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...n.” “We’ll all go second,” said Ramage, “if we may?” Mr. Stanley wanted to object strongly, but as he could not immediately think how to put it, he co... ...rdered mind, had to decide upon the general relations of men to women, the objects and conditions of marriage and its bearing upon the welfare of the ... ...constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant remark- able objects, such as— Real lace bedspread; Gilt travelling clock; Ornamental pe... ...on one side and then on the other, and trying to be agreeable. “What’s the objection?” “I suppose she ought to know?” said Gwen to her mother, trying ... ...een worse than nothing. She got up and unlocked the door. Her aunt did not object to capital punishment or war, or the industrial system or casual war... ...r form. The reddish-haired young man contributed allusions to the Hegelian philosophy that momentarily confused the discus- sion. Then Alderman Dunsta...

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...ntends you harm; You know a sword employ’d is perilous, And reason flies the object of all harm: Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds A Grecian and ... ...ially: not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy: The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of ... ...le gilt More laud than gilt o’er dusted. The present eye praises the present object. Then marvel not, thou great and complete man, That all the Greeks... ...r, but more dangerous; For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes To tender objects, but he in heat of action Is more vindicative than jealous love: ...

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...tlemen; and he acted like a brave and prudent host who likes halfpence and objects to kicks; but under pretence of properly attending to them, he alwa... ...rriage, that he might still find in this affair means to gain his original object. “Who are you?” said the Regent, putting on the stern look of her fa... ...i- ous, and jovial kings. So you can laugh as loudly at those muckworms of philosophy who go about saying, “Our fa- thers were better,” as at the good... ...leshly garb, and live forever in his writings re- splendent with that good philosophy to which we shall al- ways be obliged to return. The good man ha... ...f our land, with spiteful tricks and apish pranks, unworthy of his Homeric philosophy, of this prince of wis- dom of this fatherly centre, from which ... ...wenty and seven other statements, of which the transcription in their true objectivity, in all their quality of space would be over-fastidious, would ... ...all wished to see the place inhabited by the speaker adorned with handsome objects, and from 117 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 this idea all her lovers were... ...e been diverted during the time lost by her in the convent. To this was it objected by us, Hierome Cornille, to the said demon, that in this response ...

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...cks, little kisses, and minor amusements of love which formerly he did not object to, but which at the present time would have found him cold as the o... ...the higher powers; for nothing is so ignorant, so insolent as those cursed objects, and they are importunate like all things detained to whom one owes... ...he happiness of this young life, like a princess accus- tomed to play with objects more precious than a simple knight. In fact, her husband risked the... ...e. The day of the wedding, bereft of all her reasons, and not able to find objections to her pursuer, she made him give her a fat settlement and dowry... ...in your arms on your wedding night, unless you have been brought up in the philosophy of Zeno, which puts up with anything, and there are many people ...

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... was, as I have said, a great philosopher, and the heart and mystery of his philosophy was, to look upon the world as a gigantic practical joke; as s... ... over that common Philosopher’s stone (much more easily discovered than the object of the alchemist’s re The Battle of Life 8 searches), which some... ...le and nut meg grater (a new idea to him) square with anybody’s sys tem of philosophy; and, in short, bewildering himself as much as ever his great ... ...hat if you and Marion should continue in the same foolish minds, I shall not object to have you for a son in law one of these days.’ ‘Over the bridge... ...s, to Mr. Craggs; using that imaginative plural as if in disparagement of an objectionable pair of pan taloons, or other articles not possessed of a ... ...said Mr. Snitchey, shaking his head. ‘I hope he mayn’t stand in need of his philosophy. Our friend Alfred talks of the battle of life, ’ he shook his... ...til the sympathetic figure trembles. Dr. Jeddler, in spite of his system of philosophy which he was continually contradicting and denying in prac... ...’ ‘I’m not sure,’ said Mr. Britain, ‘that it’s what would be considered good philosophy. I’ve my doubts about that; but it wears well, and saves a qu...

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...should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should I forget! Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal; For bei... ...almost think, although you see, That you do see? could thought, without this object, Form such another? This is the very top, The height, the crest, o...

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...cept with an inferior regard; her whole thoughts being centred on this one object of affec- tion and worship. I know that, before her, my dear father ... ..., for she had come upon him as a Dea certe, and appeared the most charming object he had ever looked on. Her golden hair was shining in the gold of th... ... and wake my lady, into whose hands he gave the paper. She was a wonderful object to look at in her night attire, nor had Harry ever seen the like. As... ...bedience. First she had to bear in secret the passion of losing the adored object; then to get fur- ther initiation, and to find this worshipped being... ...e Jesuit, than which he knew no other. Mr. Bridge, the tutor, made him the object of clumsy jokes, in which he was fond of indulging. The young man’s ... ... pretty one for you to undertake. I don’t know whether ’tis your Cambridge philosophy, or time, that has altered your ways of thinking,” Lady Castlewo...

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...hrough this dim Phan- tasmagory of the Pit, will discern few fixed certain objects; and yet still a few. He will observe, in this Abbaye Prison, the s... ...ings had got a kind of brown-red colour, which makes the situation and the objects still more impressive on you. ’ (Goethe, Campagne in Frankreich (We... ... plode and flow according to Girondin Formula and pre- established rule of Philosophy? If so, for our Girondin friends it will be well. Meanwhile were... ... Necessity environing Freewill! The weapons of the Girondins are Political Philosophy, Respectability and Eloquence. Eloquence, or call it rheto- ric,... ...-creation of a World,’ says Foster; ‘and the actors in it, such small mean objects, buzzing round one like a handful of flies. ’— Likewise there is wa... ...aven!—Three poor blackguards were to ride and die with him: some say, they objected to such com- pany, and had to be flung in, neck and heels; (Foster... ... 628; Montgaillard, iv. 141-57.) but it seems not true. Ob- jecting or not objecting, the gallows-vehicle gets under way. Philippe’s dress is remarked...

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...s a special passport to the favour of Dame Jac—a lady who seemed to be the object of Duke John’s great distaste. Suddenly a voice was heard in the gal... ...s’s little white-visaged cousin; but if he could bring it about she had no objection, she should be very glad that the demoiselle should come down fro... ... the secu- lar life; but if you lead him by false hopes, of which I am the object, I tell you plainly that you are deluding him; and if any evil come ... ...eing assisted to her saddle by any but the King, who was in truth quite as objectionable a companion, as far as appearances went, for a young solitary... ...ible, as if com- ing from a mind wound up exclusively to the one necessary object; and the face—though flushed at first, and gradually growing paler, ... ... stores of thought he loved, or to plunge into the mazes of math- ematics, philosophy, and music, while his brethren in his own country were tearing o...

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...he Virgin, won- derfully clothing herself in Mesmerean Cagliostric Occult- Philosophy, has inspired them to jot down instructions and predictions for ... ... present it; and save the Monarchy and World. Unaccountable pair of visual-objects! Ye should be men, and of the Eighteenth Century; but your mag- net... ...Parl. vii. 29).) Ought not a National Assembly to occupy itself with these objects? Military France is everywhere full of sour in- flammatory humour, ... ...stitution, Differential Calculus, Newspaper Chronique de Paris, Biography, Philosophy; and now sits here as two- years Senator: a notable Condorcet, w...